restatapi (version 0.24.2)

get_compressed_sdmx: Download and extract compressed SDMX XML

Description

Downloads and extracts the data values from the SDMX XML data file

Usage

get_compressed_sdmx(url = NULL, verbose = FALSE, format = "gz")

Value

an xml class object with SDMX tags extracted and read from the downloaded file.

Arguments

url

a URL from the bulk download facility to download the zipped SDMX XML file

verbose

a logical value with default FALSE, so detailed messages (for debugging) will not printed. Can be set also with options(restatapi_verbose=TRUE).

format

the format of the compression, either "zip" or "gz" the default value

Details

It is a sub-function to use in the get_eurostat_raw and the get_eurostat_data functions.

Examples

id<-"agr_r_milkpr"
url<-paste0("https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/data/",
            id,
            "?format=sdmx_2.1_structured&compressed=true")
if (!(grepl("amzn|-aws|-azure ",Sys.info()['release']))) options(timeout=2)
sdmx_xml<-get_compressed_sdmx(url,verbose=TRUE,format="gz")
options(timeout=60)